{"id":247,"date":"2008-08-07T13:07:36","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T17:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2008-08-07T13:12:08","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T17:12:08","slug":"parallel-universe-film-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/2008\/08\/parallel-universe-film-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Parallel Universe Film Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veryshortlist.com\/vsl\/daily.cfm\/review\/519\/Website\/the-parallel-universe-film-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\">VSL<\/a> yesterday and didn&#8217;t get a chance to fully appreciate it until today.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 So this guy Spencer Green basically created a satire of the entire movie industry by making a wikipedia based parallel universe of sites like IMDB.<\/p>\n<p>The result is hilarious.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parallelfilmguide.com\/index.php?title=Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_248\" style=\"width: 431px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parallelfilmguide.com\/index.php?title=Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248\" title=\"Parallel Universe Film Guide\" src=\"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pufgmainlogo.jpg\" alt=\"Parallel Universe Film Guide\" width=\"421\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Parallel Universe Film Guide<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s fast becoming one of my favorite pastimes at work to browse through this and see if I can figure out which real movie they&#8217;re mocking (although films like &#8216;Big Ass Monkey&#8217; and &#8216;Ow, That Shark Bites&#8217; are pretty straightforward).<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s also amazing is how insanely intricate the site is.\u00a0 Stars and directors are cross-referenced.\u00a0 Plot descriptions, movie quotes and fun facts are fully fleshed out. \u00a0 This whole thing is slowly becoming its own comic book universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this on VSL yesterday and didn&#8217;t get a chance to fully appreciate it until today.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 So this guy Spencer Green basically created a satire of the entire movie industry by making a wikipedia based parallel universe of sites like IMDB. The result is hilarious.\u00a0 Check it out. It&#8217;s fast becoming one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[104,122,14,123],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thick-irony","tag-movies","tag-parallel-universe","tag-vsl","tag-websites"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}